While You Were at the Office

George Thoman,
ISBN 978-0-9768370-9-1

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Life In Blue

If you are contemplating being a cop, I think this book will provide an insight to the highs and lows of the profession. Police work is a constant fluctuation of anger, fear, sorrow and laughter. The proportions are determined by your own perception. Some times you will think you have the best job on earth and other times, perhaps the same day, you will dread ever pinning a badge on. If you are out to change the world and think you can rid the streets of bad guys, don’t waste your time, they keep appearing faster than the courts can digest them. The hours are long, the job is dangerous and the gratitude is almost non-existent. If you want a bit of adventure, despise the mundane and can laugh at most human foibles, including your own, this might be your calling. Like so many other aspects of life, in retrospect we seem to skip over the acidity of the negative and amplify the joy. At least that is how it has been for me.

Law enforcement requires perception, intelligence and compassion. If you lack the perception or intelligence, you don’t want police work. If you lack compassion, police work doesn’t need you.

I have been retired for over twenty years and like so many other of my cohorts, given the opportunity I would do it all over again. You will not become wealthy but you will taste a great variety of life. To me that was a great tradeoff.

Writing A Book

“This is unbelievable! Someday I am going to write a book.”

I can guarantee that you will hear this statement many times throughout your life. I have heard it from fellow officers, some of whom I am sure, had far more exciting encounters. The bottom line is, they never did write a book. Their adventures probably verbalized often, will never reach a sizeable audience or survive their life span. I can thank my two daughters for convincing me that my stories should be passed on to my grandchildren, although I hope they are over the age of twenty-one when they read them. The language is rough and the topics usually seamy, but that is police work and I attempted to portray it as I lived it.

“…but what else have we but memories? For all life is divided into two parts: anticipation and memory and if we remember richly, we have lived richly.” Louis L’Amour

contact the author: gthoma49@aol.com

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SeaStory Press
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Key West. Florida 33040
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